Five Tough Guys

Five Tough Guys 1974

五大汉 wǔ dàhàn

The plot follows the titular gang of misfits, gathered together by Chen Kuan Tai (a real life martial arts champion who starred in many films for the studio) in order to protect a patriotic general from a scheming usurper. To this end, the unlikely heroes act as the general’s escorts on a dangerous journey to a distant British consulate, beset by enemies and sinister Japanese interference along the way.

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大祸 大禍 dà huò disaster; calamity ∼HSK 6
犯得上 犯得上 fàn de shàng worthwhile (often in rhetorical questions, implying not worthwhile) ∼HSK 6
私仇 私仇 sī chóu personal grudge ∼HSK 6
驷马难追 駟馬難追 sì mǎ nán zhuī a team of four horses cannot catch it (idiom); fig. what is said cannot be unsaid; a promise must be kept ∼HSK 6
驾崩 駕崩 jià bēng (of an emperor) to pass away ∼HSK 6
糖葫芦 糖葫蘆 táng hú lu sugar-coated Chinese hawthorn or other fruit on a bamboo skewer; tanghulu HSK 6
两手 兩手 liǎng shǒu one's two hands; two prongs (of a strategy); both aspects, eventualities etc; skills; expertise HSK 6
生锈 生銹 shēng xiù to rust; to grow rusty; to corrode; oxidization HSK 6
处长 處長 chù zhǎng department head; section chief HSK 6
更是 更是 gèng shì even more (so) HSK 6
只管 只管 zhǐ guǎn solely engrossed in one thing; just (one thing, no need to worry about the rest); simply; by all means; please feel free; do not hesitate (to ask for sth) HSK 6
一行 一行 yī xíng party; delegation HSK 6
用处 用處 yòng chu usefulness HSK 6
特地 特地 tè dì specially; for a special purpose HSK 6
坡 坡 pō slope; sloping; slanted HSK 6
早晚 早晚 zǎo wǎn morning and evening; (dialect) some time in the future; some day HSK 6
要不然 要不然 yào bù rán otherwise; or else; or HSK 6
马车 馬車 mǎ chē cart; chariot; carriage; buggy HSK 6
追究 追究 zhuī jiū to investigate; to look into HSK 6
枝 枝 zhī branch; classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc HSK 6
低头 低頭 dī tóu to bow the head; to yield; to give in HSK 6
臂 臂 bì arm HSK 6
出动 出動 chū dòng to start out on a trip; to dispatch troops HSK 6
账 賬 zhàng account; bill; debt HSK 6
出名 出名 chū míng well-known for sth; to become well known; to make one's mark; to lend one's name (to an event, endeavor etc) HSK 6
亲眼 親眼 qīn yǎn with one's own eyes; personally HSK 6
大力 大力 dà lì energetically; vigorously HSK 6
嫌 嫌 xián to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 犯, criminal suspect HSK 6
洋 洋 yáng ocean; vast; foreign; silver dollar or coin HSK 6
想不到 想不到 xiǎng bu dào unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that HSK 6
大使 大使 dà shǐ ambassador; envoy HSK 6
吞 吞 tūn to swallow; to take HSK 6
住宅 住宅 zhù zhái residence; dwelling; abode HSK 6
皇帝 皇帝 huáng dì emperor HSK 6
误 誤 wù mistake; error; to miss; to harm; to delay; to neglect; mistakenly HSK 6
回应 回應 huí yìng to respond; response HSK 6
知名 知名 zhī míng well-known; famous HSK 6
凶 兇 xiōng terrible; fearful HSK 6
沿着 沿著 yán zhe to go along; to follow HSK 6
救命 救命 jiù mìng to save sb's life; (interj.) Help!; Save me! HSK 6
当成 當成 dàng chéng to consider as; to take to be HSK 6
策划 策劃 cè huà to plot; to scheme; to bring about; to engineer; planning; producer; planner HSK 6
狠 狠 hěn ruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; to harden (one's heart); old variant of 很 HSK 6
惨 慘 cǎn miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy HSK 6
趟 䠀 tàng classifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip HSK 6
宫 宮 gōng palace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale HSK 6
肯 肎 kěn to agree; to consent; to be willing to HSK 6
护 護 hù to protect HSK 6
族 族 zú race; nationality; ethnicity; clan; by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族) HSK 6
绝 絕 jué to cut short; extinct; to disappear; to vanish; absolutely; by no means HSK 6